Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor announced this week that drummer Ilan Rubin will join the band upon Josh Freese's exit. Here's my beef: Dudes keep referring to the kid as drummer of Lostprophets. Mostly it's the ire and jealousy of seeing a fucking 21-year old join arguably the biggest loud rock touring outfit around, but to tar Rubin by association with LP is silly: After two albums, LP's drummer left; then, ironically, it was Freese who played on third and latest album Liberation Transmission (with the exception of a whopping two tracks credited to Rubin). And then Rubin played on their tour. So you see he's hardly Lostprophets drummer Ilan Rubin. More like seen-in-the-vicinity-of-Lostprophets drummer Ilan Rubin.
Sometimes hyper-processed, ghost-written, poser scarf-rock (like Lostprophets) transcends its own lameness to succeed as enjoyable pop. But I rush to point out that LP shouldn't hog this (totally faint) praise: Michael Barbiero (...And Justice For All, Persistence of Time) polished their nu-metal debut, ex-god of rock production Bob Rock helmed Transmission, and the fabulous Eric Valentine is responsible for second outing Start Something. Now, people who didn't blink throughout the early 90s or happened to work at Hollywood Records or had the Encino Man sdtk will tell you that E-Val is from T-Ride, the most intellectual and thrilling hair rock band to ever make it as far as opening a Joe Satriani tour. Then he went on to produce Queens of the Stone Age and cough Good Charlotte. Anyway, T-Ride rules. The More You Know vwwwwwing twinkle *
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